People Interests

Here are variousblog resources related to all the different property interests, from landlords & tenants, to investors & occupiers, to all other third-party interests. These cover general factors to consider for a particular interest, to more detailed issues to resolve for a particular course of action.

Managing commercial properties is a different kettle of fish than other types of properties, i.e. residential, although utilising certain shared principles as well. It is actually how these principles are applied to more business and commercial properties that will provide the results you want, whether increased returns and rents, reduced costs and overheads, or simply less hassle with managing them and enjoying using the property.

It's imperative to get these goals firmly established. If not, then you'll tend to bumble along and make ad-hoc decisions without any clarity or longer term performance.

It's often this bigger perspective that you need with commercial properties, whether you're a business occupying them...

A Property Manager is a person or firm who does what they say on the tin, manages properties. They’re often an external company and agency employed by a property owner or landlord to help manage their property interests over time, although this can be more just an internal post or role that the property owner carries out themselves.

It covers all property classes from residential to commercial, with popular scenarios being individual owners managing their individuals houses or flats, or a separate property manager being instructed for larger and more complicated properties.

There’s usually a whole range of tasks involved, popular ones being looking after any tenants at the property including rent collection and...

It can be a grey area between when property management begins and when sales and lettings takes over. Although these two worlds are very different, because they do overlap and complement each other they are often referred to as an all-in-one service.

So if you have a sales or letting agent first selling the property or finding a new tenant, then managing the property afterwards can appear to be an obvious bolt-on service. Alternatively, you may have a property manager already dealing with day-to-day matters, and when an imminent sale or new letting is on the horizon then they are the first ones to offer a letting or selling service.

On the face of it, this makes sense, with one party seeing the whole process through. From...